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Collage of five diverse artworks from the Hammer Museum Collections side by side. From left to right: 1) Contemporary painting of two embracing figures with surreal elements. 2) Post-impressionist style painting of trees with vibrant blues and greens. 3) Black and white illustration of a face with intricate patterns. 4) Japanese woodblock print style image of a figure in a checkered robe. 5) Photograph of a couple dancing, the woman in a black dress and the man in white

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Bibliography

This bibliography compiles resources about Corita Kent and her work. Click on the link at the end of each entry to access an online article or find the resource's record on WorldCat, the world's largest network of library content.

Anderson, Jennifer. "Print University: Printmaking Pedagogy in Los Angeles." In Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California. Edited by Leah Lehmbeck. Los Angeles: Getty Publications in association with the Norton Simon Museum, 2011. WorldCat record

Ault, Julie. Come Alive!: The Spirited Art of Sister Corita. London: Four Corners, 2006. WorldCat Record

———. Power Up: Reassembled Speech, Interlocking Sister Corita and Donald Moffett. Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1997. WorldCat record

———. Power Up: Sister Corita and Donald Moffett, Interlocking. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2000. WorldCat record

Ault, Julie, and Martin Beck. "All You Need Is Love: Pictures Words and Worship—Sister Corita Kent's Freewheeling Assemblages of Text and Image Provide a New Perspective on the 1960s Obsession with Messages and Media." Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design 35 (2000). WorldCat record

Berry, Ian, and Michael Duncan. Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent. New York: DelMonico/Prestel, 2013. WorldCat record

Burns, Jeffrey M. "'Be of Love (a Little) More Careful': Sister Corita, Father Bob, Love, and Art." U.S. Catholic Historian 19, no. 3 (Summer 2001). JSTOR record

Chalmers, Graeme. "Visual Culture Education in the 1960s." Art Education 58, no. 6 (November 2005): 6–11. JSTOR record

Dackerman, Susan, ed. Corita Kent and the Language of Pop. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums, 2015. WorldCat record

Gross, Stu. "Footnotes and Headlines." Christian Century, November 2, 1967. WorldCat record

Hay, David. "Tapping Sister Corita's Creative Process." Los Angeles Times, May 7, 2009. Online article

Hoogwaerts, Romke. "Corita Kent, Warhol's Kindred Spirit in the Convent." New York Times, April 10, 2015. Online Article

Kent, Corita. "Art and Beauty in the Life of a Sister." In The Changing Sister. Edited by Sister Charles Borromeo Muckenhirn. Notre Dame, IN: Fides, 1965. WorldCat record

———. Art d'église. Los Angeles: Immaculate Heart College, 1966. WorldCat record

———. "Catching Sight: Potentialities of Photographs." In The Use and Misuse of Visual Arts in Religious Education. Edited by Celia T. Hubbard. Glen Rock, NJ: Paulist, 1966. WorldCat record

———. "Choose Life or Assign a Sign or Begin a Conversation." Living Light 3, no. 1 (Spring 1966). WorldCat record

———. Damn Everything but the Circus. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. WorldCat record

———. Footnotes and Headlines: A Play-Pray Book. New York: Herder and Herder, 1967. WorldCat record

———. Moments. Boston: Beacon, 1982. WorldCat record

———. "Philosophy of Art Education" and "Searching for the Creative Concept." In Catholic Art Education: The New Trends; The Proceedings of the Workshop on New Trends in Catholic Art Education, Conducted at Catholic University of America, June 13 to June 24, 1958. Edited by Esther Newport. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America, 1959. WorldCat record

———. "Sources of Art in Our Times." In Re-evaluating Art in Education: The Proceedings of the Workshop on Re-evaluating Art in Education Conducted at Catholic University of America, June 12 to June 23, 1959. Edited by Esther Newport. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America, 1960. WorldCat record

Kent, Sister Mary Corita, Harvey Gallagher Cox, and Samuel A. Eisenstein. Sister Corita. Philadelphia: Pilgrim, 1968. WorldCat record

Kent, Corita, and Margaret Rigg. Sister Mary Corita. Los Angeles: Immaculate Heart College, 1966.

Kent, Corita, and Jan Steward. Learning by Heart. New York: Bantam, 1992. WorldCat record

Loste, Barbara Marianne. Life Stories of Artist Corita Kent (1918–1986): Her Spirit, Her Art, The Woman Within. PhD diss., Gonzaga University, 2000. WorldCat record

Sandhaus, Louise, et al. Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires and Riots: California and Graphic Design, 1936–1986. New York: Metropolis, 2014. WorldCat record

Stief, Angela, et al. Power Up: Female Pop Art. Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, 2010. WorldCat record

Wild, Lorraine. "Corita Kent." In Rethinking Design Number Five: The Visual Language of Subcultures. Edited by Pentagram Design. Cohoes, NY: Mohawk Paper Mills, 1999. WorldCat record

Willick, Damon. "Handfuls of Creative People: Printmaking and the Foundations of Los Angeles Art in the 1960s." In Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California. Edited by Leah Lehmbeck. Los Angeles: Getty Publications in association with the Norton Simon Museum, 2011. WorldCat record